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About 4,000 Bulgarian workers rallied on Wednesday against low wages and a lack of jobs, in a possible sign that opposition to the Socialist-led cabinet may be spreading beyond daily protests staged mostly by students. The protesters, led by Bulgaria's largest trade union CITUB, marched through the capital Sofia to demand a 10 percent hike in public salaries and reforms in the inefficient and graft-prone healthcare and energy sectors. If the government do not take note now, our next move will be to go to strike," said CITUB leader Plamen Dimitrov. The centre-left government has faced daily protests almost since taking office in May over alleged corruption, but these have so far been dominated by students and relatively well-to-do urban professionals who account for a small proportion of Bulgaria's population.
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